diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 95dfb88d2a0..26e45399d58 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -977,6 +977,7 @@ class HandlerTests(unittest.TestCase):
         h = urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler()
         o = h.parent = MockOpener()
         req = Request(from_url)
+        req.timeout = socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
 
         for scheme in invalid_schemes:
             invalid_url = scheme + '://' + schemeless_url
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c671107f6e8..9b68a72c0d7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
   there are many tags (e.g. when using mq).  Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
 
-- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
-  scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
-
 - Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
   Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
 
@@ -50,6 +47,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
+  scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
+
 - Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
   arguments.